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This is why we should care about calories, not about mass.
It is calories which sustain us.
So 214 trillion calories is a very large number, and not even the most dedicated of us think in the hundreds of trillions of calories.
214 trillion calories.
A single Big Mac has 563 calories.
Now, simply put, this is just calories consumed in that country minus calories produced in that same country.
It's simply saying how many calories are consumed in a single year minus how many are produced.
40 years ago, such few countries were net exporters of calories, I could count them with one hand.
Most of the African continent, Europe, most of Asia, South America excluding Argentina, were all net importers of calories.
India was a big net importer of calories.
India is food self-sufficient and in the past decade has actually been exporting calories.
The African continent now imports over 300 trillion calories a year.
India will soon become a net importer of calories.
Next, Africa will continue to be a net importer of calories, again driven by population growth and economic growth.
Then China, where population is flattening out, calorie consumption will explode because the types of calories consumed are also starting to be higher-calorie-content foods.
And this, by the way, is actually assuming we take all the extra calories produced in North America, South America and Europe and export them solely to India, China and Africa.
The new question is, how do we produce 214 trillion calories to feed 8.3 billion people by 2027?
Now, there's no mystery in how you lose weight; you either burn more calories by exercise or you eat fewer calories.
Now, one way to eat fewer calories is to eat less food, which is why you can lose weight on any diet if you eat less food, or if you restrict entire categories of foods.
And fat has nine calories per gram, whereas protein and carbs only have four.
So when you eat less fat, you eat fewer calories without having to eat less food.
So you can eat the same amount of food, but you're getting fewer calories because the food is less dense in calories.
The myth that you hear is, Americans have been told to eat less fat, the percent of calories from fat is down, Americans are fatter than ever, therefore fat doesn't make you fat.
And you get a double whammy: you get all these calories that don't fill you up because you've removed the fiber, and they get absorbed quickly so your blood sugar zooms up.
Your pancreas makes insulin to bring it back down, which is good, but insulin accelerates the conversion of calories into fat.
The fiber fills you up before you get too many calories and it slows the absorption, so you don't get that rapid rise in blood sugar.
They do about 10 percent of the work of a similar-sized mammal and survive on as little as 100 calories a day, thanks to some ingenious adaptations.
And if we figure out how our brain recognizes fat and sugar, and I'm just dreaming here, but could we then one day create a milkshake with zero calories that tastes just like the real deal?
Or maybe we figure out that we can't, because we subconsciously detect calories via our receptors in our gastrointestinal tract.
We add in raisins and oil and milk and all kinds of things to make bread, from a simple food into kind of a support for calories.
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